What, you may well be thinking, could James Franco possibly weird us out with next? "Oh, I'm gonna start freestyling librettos now." "Oh, I'm launching a 1-800 fortune-teller line." "Oh, I'm gonna break the world record for Ping-Pong dribbling and then I'm gonna write and illustrate a graphic novel about how breaking the world record in Ping-Pong dribbling made me sad." Great, James. Great. But wait! No! Franco hasn't run out of ways to be Franco — not quite yet. Showbiz411 is reporting that Franco is directing a feature adaptation of — oh, hell yes — William Faulkner's famously fragmented As I Lay Dying.

Oh, happy day! Variety reports that James Franco has signed up for Homefront, which follows "Phil Broker (Statham), an ex-DEA agent who moves his family to a quiet town hoping to escape his past. However, he finds the town to be overrun with violence, drug traffickers and an evil meth magnate named Gator (Franco). To save his endangered family, retribution is now the only thing Broker seeks." And yes, Sly wrote the film but won't be starring in it. Hopefully they'll bring him on set and let him have all kinds of unimpeachable creative input, though?